urban wind energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:17:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Wind and Solar Powered Streetlights Shine at Night in Spain https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-solar-powered-streetlights-shine-night-spain-20150121/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-solar-powered-streetlights-shine-night-spain-20150121/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:34:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=51419 A new streetlights concept by a team of Spanish researchers and entrepreneurs, holds the potential to revolutionize the energy efficiency plans of urban environments. What makes the new design different and much more promising than existing ones, is the fact that these lights are powered by both solar and wind. One of the biggest challenges […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-solar-powered-streetlights-shine-night-spain-20150121/feed/ 0 51419 Wind Power Tree Brings Clean Energy from City Streets https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-tree/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-tree/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:02:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50447 A small French firm has developed a fully functioning prototype of an urban wind tree turbine. Their invention resembles natural vegetation, captures low speed urban winds, generates great amounts of electricity, and it works entirely noise-free. Some people claim that wind turbines are ugly or influence health in one way or another. Wind farms in general […]

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